Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

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Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby The Consul » Fri Jan 19, 2018 1:13 pm

Now that President Trump has been verified to be of sound mind and body, rumor has it that he is preparing to make his boldest staff shakeup since taking the Oval Office. Various insiders with direct knowledge of the President’s thinking are leaking that Trump has grown weary of General Kelly. Kelly’s recent statements that Trump’s policy positions in general were uninformed and evolving were said to send Trump into a rage.

“Why do I have to have THIS general telling me what to do, trying all the time to make me look stupid?” One source confided. Aids tried to reassure the president that Kelly wants to keep America White, just like him, but that he is only trying to direct the press into the conscious posture that the White House is operating according to a rational, well-conceived set of policies being developed and executed according to a complex political stratagem. The president reportedly said " You think my base cares about that?"

Several sources within the White House are saying that President Trump will soon accept the resignation of General John Kelly. The announcement has been delayed because it took Trump’s top aids several hours to convince him that General Kelly could not be replaced by General Mills. Knowing better than to remind the president that General Mills is not a person, since Trump would argue corporations have been granted personhood, they instead took the track with the president that General Mills, although “he” would not be a contradictory distraction as was Kelly, would likewise not be able to protect the president from the insurgence of other fake news players such as deep state spy Michael Wolff. The compromise was reached between top aids and Trump that yes, a so called real person would have to replace Kelly but at the same time a new WH office would be created titled, “The Office of Nondisclosure” or The NDA. The president was very fond of this idea, but had to be told that no, leakers could not be summarily executed in the Rose Garden, and that bringing Ted Nuggent on the White House grounds to kill people with a bow and arrow was tempting, but the optics were prohibitive.

The second stage of the compromise is that, as we all know, the Navy has a lot of egg on its face and something has to be done to rebuild the image of our patriotic sailor heroes. Therefore, sources disclose, the president met almost no resistance when he suggested the Navy no be helmed by Captain Crunch. A cabinet member who spoke on background verified that Trump insisted on Crunch and that no one in the cabinet meeting voiced any concern about such an appointment.

According to this source, Trump will direct Captain Crunch to reform the structure and mission of the Navy. “We will wow the world with what we are about to do!” The president is quoted as saying, after he went on for more than twenty minutes ranting about why there are no cruise ships in the navy. Trump apparently plans on directing Captain Crunch to commission a new, twenty first century vessel that will convert the USS Yorktown currently mothballed as a tourist destination in Charleston, SC. The ship is to be re-christend as the USS Trump. The president promised, “it will be the biggest, the best, the most amazing thing anyone has ever seen in the history of civilization!” Plans call for 5,000 guest quarters, smoke stacks in the shape of Trump Tower, and embedded with 27 Tomahawk Cruiseship Missiles, 16 MK 48 Heavy Torpedoes and a bevy of sophisticated artillery designed to destroy competing resort installations. There will be festive observation decks so “real Americans, red blooded patriots” can watch as the best and brightest of America sails forth to engage the world. Complimentary chicken balls will be included with the $1,400 per day base rate. The first tour will be known as the “Who’s Your Daddy?” Guests will pay extra for night shellings and missile firings on “a wide variety of global shitholes”. Premium Diamond Packages will, on a side room of the casino, allow guests to view the torture and execution of suspected terrorists, leakers, and journalists, when available. The ship should gross around $9,000,000 per day of which Trumpco is expected to get 23% in licensing fees.

As news of this spread in the White House there was an understandable uproar among the press corps, but by the end of the day most of them seemed to accept these developments as part of having, as Sara Huckabee Sanders said “an unusal president who does things his own way.” She reminded them how disgusting and undeserving they are to be in the WH and that they’re lucky they're not all in a prison camp. She told one Bloomberg reporter to sit down and shut up when he asked if this was all some kind of joke.

“No,” Ms. Huckabee Sanders answered, “It is not a joke. I would remind you of how I got my job. When I first met the president he asked me if I was related to the Colonel. Of course, my initial reaction was to laugh and say funny, ha ha. But I was told the President is always serious and believes everything that comes out of his mouth is true and real, honest, and irrefutable even if the previous thing that came out of his mouth was the exact opposite. So I said, ‘yeah, he’s my uncle. Love his little pea pickin' heart. Sealed the deal right there.’ So don’t talk to me about what is or isn’t real or funny. I’m up here, and you schmucks are out there. Deal with it!”

Now that the president has been confirmed to be of sound mind and body, political experts are saying, he should be able to charge full speed ahead to gloriously implementing his no nonsense agenda that will make America great again.

We reached out to the office of Captain Crunch but his representatives say he is too busy to respond.

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Re: Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby Elvis » Fri Jan 19, 2018 2:46 pm

Fake or Real? :rofl2
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Re: Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby The Consul » Fri Jan 19, 2018 3:11 pm

This is inspired by a re-reading of Robert Coover's "The Public Burning". A read at this inflection point that reassures us that Uncle Sam has long been a dirty clown with sick intent. The Shock is in wondering how we ever allowed ourselves to believe somehow this grand experiment would lead us away from, rather than toward an unimaginable madness. It's now to the point where it's all a battle to be the last person to speak to Golf Boy before he starts his daily tweet squirts. Technology meets a populist revolution so divorced from reality that most the old references are gone. America will never be the same.

The clowns now run the circus and their souls run sour with torrents of revenge.
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Re: Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby JackRiddler » Fri Jan 19, 2018 3:59 pm

You had me totally buying it right up until General Mills appeared. Good work!
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Re: Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby stillrobertpaulsen » Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:01 pm

The Consul » Fri Jan 19, 2018 2:11 pm wrote:The clowns now run the circus and their souls run sour with torrents of revenge.


Fantastic quote. Is it yours or Coover? If yours, I'll be sure to put in the RI Originals thread.

My question, which I'm almost afraid to ask, is who do these clowns want revenge against?
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Re: Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby JackRiddler » Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:18 pm

stillrobertpaulsen » Fri Jan 19, 2018 3:01 pm wrote:
The Consul » Fri Jan 19, 2018 2:11 pm wrote:The clowns now run the circus and their souls run sour with torrents of revenge.


Fantastic quote. Is it yours or Coover? If yours, I'll be sure to put in the RI Originals thread.

My question, which I'm almost afraid to ask, is who do these clowns want revenge against?


Mom. Humanity. Life itself for giving them a hole not a soul. Every personal and collective slight or grievance ever experienced, real or imagined, murmured all day until magnified a million times. As it is, how most people behave cannot be explained only by their interest in whatever sense or by rational game theory. We suffer from many varieties of unknown or unacknowledged sickness, and these are the sickest among us.
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Re: Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby Elvis » Fri Jan 19, 2018 7:11 pm

They make the world their Private Hell.
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Re: Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby The Consul » Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:16 pm

4what it's worth quote is mine. Plumbed from the 6th ring of hell just five clicks outside The Time of Our High & the cadaver lab of recollection.

But fuck me, read Coover. The Public Burning.
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Re: Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby Jerky » Sat Jan 20, 2018 12:53 am

A second recommendation for Coover's writing, here. You might want to begin with his short fictions, Pricksongs & Descants.

Warning to Jordan Peterson fanbois, however... Coover is considered a preeminent postmodernist.

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Re: Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby SonicG » Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:43 am

Wow - this some praise...
"perhaps the most complete replenishment of the language since Whitman and (in a different way) Mark Twain ... no writer since Melville has dived so deeply and fearlessly into this collective American dream as Coover has in this novel..."

Just started Pale Fire with the dictionary by my side but very interested in reading this...cheers!
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Postby Jerky » Sat Jan 20, 2018 3:03 am

Pale Fire is a personal favorite as well. Enjoy!

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Re: Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby stillrobertpaulsen » Mon Jan 22, 2018 3:29 pm

The Consul » Fri Jan 19, 2018 9:16 pm wrote:4what it's worth quote is mine. Plumbed from the 6th ring of hell just five clicks outside The Time of Our High & the cadaver lab of recollection.

But fuck me, read Coover. The Public Burning.


I will keep that recommendation in mind next time I'm at the library. Thank you.

The line between satire and reality gets thinner every day. I was wondering which clown would find Kelly's replacement:

Ivanka reportedly takes charge in firing Chief of Staff John Kelly after Trump calls him ‘nut job’

David Edwards

22 Jan 2018 at 13:09 ET

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John Kelly’s time as President Donald Trump’s chief of staff may be coming to an end.

On Monday, author Gabriel Sherman reported that Ivanka Trump had been put in charge of finding a replacement for Kelly.

“Ivanka is the most worried about it. She’s trying to figure who replaces Kelly,” someone who has spoken with the president’s daughter told Sherman.

According to Sherman, Kelly’s days as Trump’s chief of staff “may finally have gone past the point of no return.”

“He wants to stay longer than Reince [Priebus],” an outside adviser explained to Sherman.

Kelly recently came under fire by the president’s defenders after he told lawmakers that Trump had “evolved” on the issue of a border wall.

“The more Kelly plays up that he’s being the adult in the room—that it’s basically combat duty and he’s serving the country—that kind of thing drives Trump nuts,” one Republican close to the White House explained.

Trump recently suggested to a friend that Kelly had overstayed his welcome.

“I’ve got another nut job here who thinks he’s running things,” Trump reportedly said.
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Re: Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby The Consul » Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:11 pm

Only one logical choice.

Howard Stern.
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Re: Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby stillrobertpaulsen » Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:57 pm

Excellent choice! I was thinking perhaps Gene Simmons, considering how well he did on his show. But given his sexual prowess, Trump might find him too much of a threat. Stern will just bring his small penis schtick and have Trump eating out of his hand, or, something.
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Re: Trump to Fire Kelly, Shake up Cabinet

Postby Joao » Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:49 pm

Jerky » Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:03 pm wrote:Pale Fire is a personal favorite as well. Enjoy!

Been curious about PF but can't get myself interested enough to actually read it. Started a thread in the book forum and would welcome additional discussion.
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